This resource brings together more than 120 selections by women in six countries of southern Africa, in English and in translation from more than 20 different languages, ranging from wedding songs and work songs to letters, prison diaries, poetry, memoirs, and recent testimony before South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Among the famous ones are Doris Lessing, Sindiwe Magona, and more), The introductory notes to each selection provide background and biography,